Course Details

Cost

FREE

Upcoming Schedule

In Session

Course Provider

Canvas Network online courses

The Canvas Network sets itself apart from other education providers by making
learning current and directly relevant to you. For example, the network uses
the AMC hit TV series "The Walking Dead" to teach lessons in survival, science
and society. Looking to advance your business career even further? Learn from
knowledgeable professors like Kirk O. Hanson. Hanson has 23 years of
experience teaching business ethics and is the executive director for the
Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at S...

The Canvas Network sets itself apart from other education providers by making
learning current and directly relevant to you. For example, the network uses
the AMC hit TV series "The Walking Dead" to teach lessons in survival, science
and society. Looking to advance your business career even further? Learn from
knowledgeable professors like Kirk O. Hanson. Hanson has 23 years of
experience teaching business ethics and is the executive director for the
Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University. Learn about
large events like the Olympics with professor Mark Wilson, who has visited
eight world's fairs and two Olympics. The Canvas Network leaves behind the
“one-size-fits-all” approach to online learning and offers classes taught by
outstanding professors with course material that is made relevant to today's
society.

Course Description

This course presents inspiring local, regional, and international solutions in community energy, local food, social care, land tenure, and cooperative finance that address current concerns for environmental and social well-being. It introduces the knowledge and practice of co-operation, economic democracy, and the commons and invites your participation in an intensive program of exploration, instruction, dialogue, and practical training in systems change and transition.

Recognize the role of public policy and bottom-up innovation in renewable community energy.

Outline the philosophy, rationale, and organizational forms of user-controlled models of health and social care.

Discuss enclosure, and the alternatives of commons and land tru...

This course presents inspiring local, regional, and international solutions in community energy, local food, social care, land tenure, and cooperative finance that address current concerns for environmental and social well-being. It introduces the knowledge and practice of co-operation, economic democracy, and the commons and invites your participation in an intensive program of exploration, instruction, dialogue, and practical training in systems change and transition.

Recognize the role of public policy and bottom-up innovation in renewable community energy.

Outline the philosophy, rationale, and organizational forms of user-controlled models of health and social care.

Discuss enclosure, and the alternatives of commons and land trusts.

Describe community development finance and co-operative capital raising and their potential to secure democratic and socially directed investment for the common good.

Synthesize key ideas and practices that define systemic transition.

Target Audience: We imagine that if you were attracted to this course, you will be someone who shares our general world view and vision, and wants to broaden and deepen it and join us and others to develop it. That is its principal purpose, but a secondary purpose is to link people and projects that share these views in practical ways. In this first presentation, you are likely to be people who are already engaged in social change work in three crucial movements – co-operation, commons, and sustainability. Most are already actively working to make this world view a reality. You may be active in the environmental movement, human or animal rights, social equality and development, the solidarity economy, co-operative finance and alternative currencies; the Transition Movement, permaculture, local food, eco-villages, the digital commons, peer-to-peer and open educational resources, community energy or many others.

Course is offered by Athabasca University in collaboration with Synergia.